My Travel pages feature articles from trips around the world with photographs by my inamorata Steven Richter. The two of us are almost always on the road in the winter -- Venice, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, India, Vietnam and Cambodia -- and we try to escape the New York summers by going somewhere cool. You’ll find articles I’ve written about these places here. Friends are constantly emailing me for lists of my favorites places to eat on their own travels. From time to time, I’ll post some of my current favorites in this Travel section.

June 28, 2010 | Travel FeatureHow to Speak Sushi: Hot Tokyo Addresses Tokyo is vast and astonishing and private. Expect to feel lost in translation, dizzy from culture shock unless you carry these addresses from Yukari Sakamoto.

December 29, 2009 | Travel FeatureSri Lanka: Stalking the Big BlueMy passion for jewelry is intense, nearly as consuming as my passion for truffled Nantucket scallops, suckling pig or crusty and creamy macaroni-and-cheese. Between meals as a restaurant critic, I collect vintage fakery and dream of real gems…now we are headed for a week in sapphire-rich Sri Lanka…

October 9, 2009 | Travel FeatureTuscany Without BrakesCaesare Casella was planning a fast jaunt to Tuscany and Parma to capture the essence of how Italians eat. Or maybe it was how Tuscans eat. Casella being a consummate Tuscan and only coincidently, Italian...

January 14, 2008 | Travel FeatureBologna Hot TipsObsessed foodie, that’s my guy’s cousin Mitch, aka weinoo on eGullet…just back from five days in Bologna with side trips to Padua and a visit to a friend’s restaurant in Umbria…

January 1, 2006 | Travel FeatureInsatiable in New Delhi with Suvir SaranThe haunting smells of something cooking are everywhere in Chandri Chowk, the main street of old Delhi's sprawling bazaar. They make a confusion of scents calling out to foodie travelers like me from snack food stands, closet-sized food stalls and rudimentary restaurants tucked into the spice market, between pocket-size jewlery shops and along streets famous for their wedding saris and savory pancake-like parathas.

October 1, 2005 | Travel FeatureEat Like a VenetianIn a city that often confounds food lovers, I hit the ground running and enlist the help of some trusted locals to find a dozen of Venice's…

October 1, 2005 | Travel FeatureEating On Their FeetYes, Venetians have figured it out. It’s faster to walk in a city built on water. When it pours or grows icy, they may jump on and off the vaporetto (the floating bus) where they often huddle on deck or stand inside...When the vaporettos shift into late night mode, waits loom long and everyone walks. Does that somehow illuminate standup eating?...

September 1, 2004 | Travel FeatureEating up ParisDon't let the brawny euro get in the way of a great meal. Let me scour the French capital for restaurants that are high in style, substance—and…

July 31, 2004 | Travel FeatureParis: Counter RevolutionParisiens, famously blind chauvinists, have discovered the rest of the world and found it…delicious. Italian is the newest rage with proliferating trattorie in every neighborhood and even a gelato shop boldly planted just steps beyond the Ile St. Louis where Berthillon reigns. Back from a six weeks retreat to work on my memoir (even a hermit has to eat dinner), I can report that snails are having a rousing revival and frog's legs are dancing...

October 27, 2003 | Winter TravelParis ReviewYou've already done the museum-and-monument marathon. On your next trip to Paris, rent an apartment, and give yourself time to stop and smell the farmhouse
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January 1, 2002 | Travel FeatureBarcelona Dine-A-ThonJose Ramon Andres has two passions, well, actually the Barcelona-raised chef of Jaleo in Washington D.C. bristles with irrepressible enthusiasms. So let's say, two grand passions: America and Cataluyna (not necessarily in that order.) A mutual friend asks him to email me a list of his Barcelona favorites for my winter retreat there. “I wish I could go along and show her My Barcelona.” The email says.

December 1, 1999 | Travel FeatureA Critic’s Passage to IndiaSix weeks leapfrogging about India. My emotions are always churning, whipped by a cascade of color and beauty, the amazing hospitality everywhere, the haunting pain and poverty, filth and frustration.